topic Importing GIS in Collaboration with other software

Importing GIS

Anonymous — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 16:14:39 GMT

Does anyone out there know anything about importing GIS information into Archicad? File types are...

.dbf
.prj
.sbn
.sbx
.shp

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

-Jared

Re: Importing GIS

David Larrew — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 21:10:01 GMT

You will need to use the file's native software to save out the content in a format that AC can read.

Re: Importing GIS

Anonymous — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 22:23:57 GMT

superduperjared wrote:
Does anyone out there know anything about importing GIS information into Archicad? File types are...

.dbf
.prj
.sbn
.sbx
.shp

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

-Jared

I've been able to use a program called Arcv2CAD to convert GIS files to DWG then import the DWG into ArchiCAD. It's Windows only but you do get 5 free uses before you need to purchase the program.
There were some rumors that ERSI and Graphisoft were working on a plug-in (about the same time as the Sketch-Up plug in) but nothing seems to have materialized.